Bengaluru: Kempegowda International Airport, Bengaluru (BLR Airport) on Tuesday said it has installed 10 emergency oxygen generators for the benefit of passengers and airport staff, to provide life-saving support during medical emergencies. “The timely availability of emergency oxygen at the departure and arrival areas could help those experiencing heart attacks, breathlessness, or even fainting,” it […]
New Delhi: Emphasising on making cancer treatment affordable, a parliamentary panel on Monday suggested top government officials to consider waiving GST on cancer drugs and take stringent measures to check the prices of medicines and radiation therapy, sources said. The panel also suggested that cancer should be a “notifiable disease” so that its “actual burden” […]
NEW DELHI: The SC hearing a plea by rebel Shiv Sena legislators against their disqualification notice issued by the Maharashtra deputy speaker, has extended the time for filing response till July 11 evening. Originally, the rebels were advised to file a reply by 5.30pm today. Hearing the plea, SC has issued notices to Maharashtra government […]
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh Congress on Monday staged protests across the state against the Centre’s Agnipath defence recruitment scheme and said the government’s “Tughlaqi” decision will have a negative impact on the quality and competence of the country’s armed forces. In a statement issued here, Uttar Pradesh Congress spokesperson Krishnakant Pandey accused the government of […]
Ahmedabad: A Special Investigation Team (SIT), to be headed by Gujarat ATS DIG, will probe the case against activist Teesta Setalvad and former IPS officers RB Sreekumar and Sanjiv Bhatt who have been accused of abusing the process of law by fabricating evidence to frame innocent people in connection with the 2002 Gujarat communal riots, […]
New Delhi: The Left parties have strongly opposed the arrest of Mumbai-based activist Teesta Setelvad by the Gujarat Police, with the CPI(M) alleging that the move is “abhorrent” to democratic rights of citizens. The Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS), who had detained Setalvad in Mumbai on Saturday, handed her over to the Ahmedabad crime branch early […]
Chandigarh: Dubbed ‘Budda Jarnail’ by some of his critics, 77-year-old Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) president and former IPS officer Simranjit Singh Mann had recently insisted that he may have grown old but couldn’t be written off just yet. His assertion proved prophetic on Sunday as he wrested the Sangrur Lok Sabha seat from the Aam […]
New Delhi: A former BJP MP has moved the Supreme Court challenging the validity of certain sections of the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991. The plea filed by Chintamani Malviya challenged the constitutional validity of sections 2, 3 and 4 of the 1991 Act, claiming that they violate the principles of secularism. Malviya, […]
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday lauded the BJP’s win in the Lok Sabha bypolls in Azamgarh and Rampur as “historic”, asserting that this indicates wide-scale acceptance and support for the “double engine” governments at the Centre and in Uttar Pradesh, a reference to the party being power at both places. In his […]
Lucknow: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday alleged “murder of democracy” under the BJP rule after the saffron party won the Rampur and Azamgarh Lok Sabha seats. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Uttar Pradesh wrested the seats considered the bastions of the opposition Samajwadi Party. “The chronology of ‘murder of democracy’ in […]